Scuttlers

The Scuttlers were members of neighborhood-based youth gangs who were active in the Greater Manchester area of England during the late 19th century. Gangs were formed in the slums of Manchester, in the townships of Bradford, Gorton, and Openshaw to the east, and in Salford to the west. Gang conflicts erupted in Manchester during the 1870s, and they went on sporadically for the next thirty years, declining in frequency and severity by the late 1890s.